- ABC cancelled Samantha Who? (Bugger, but Better Off Ted might make up for the loss). The thing that did Samantha in? Money + A lot of new series.
- Ugly Betty moves to Friday at 10 PM!
- Kelsey Grammer & Patricia Heaton are back...on ABC...on separate sitcoms. I have my doubt as to whether either will survive, but who knows.
- Law & Order regular lives on to chime for its 20th season for NBC, although it will only run for 16 episodes.
- Sherri Shepherd of The View gets her own sitcom...on Lifetime.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Scenes from the Battle for Fall Programing
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speaking of network programming, the 2006 movie called "the tv set" did an excellent job of skewering the industry.
aside from the made-up "slut wars" show, my favorite part was how the big network honcho (played brilliantly by sigourney weaver, whose own father was once president of nbc) used the opinions/taste of her teenage daughter to determine which pilots were worthy of being picked up -- which is a wonderful allegory for the way in which television programming often caters to the lowest common denominator when it comes to maturity and sophistication.
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